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NewTime
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22 Jun 2017, 4:09 pm

I wouldn't want to ride one, but I like looking at them.



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22 Jun 2017, 4:43 pm

I enjoy looking at competition motorcycles and I enjoy watching their riders do things I could never have done, and I have enjoyed riding -- especially highway cruising -- since I was first allowed at age 15.


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22 Jun 2017, 8:06 pm

I don't like motorcycles, even though Spring Garden Township (suburban York, PA) is home to a large Harley Davidson plant (the three wheelers, the custom jobs, and some of the soft tails are manufactured there. It's also home to the Rodney Gott museum, which has a lot of the older Harley's in the collection.



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23 Jun 2017, 6:35 am

Not really. They tend to be too loud when people ride em & people like to leave em running parked rite outside our place which has thin walls & is very close to the highway.


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23 Jun 2017, 6:37 am

No. They're loud and the people who drive them here in my town are crazy.



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24 Jun 2017, 8:07 am

No, they're too loud.


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24 Jun 2017, 8:14 am

i used to like riding them, had a Yamaha DT 175 converted to off road... But hate it when one starts up in the street or when one goes by, get an anxiety rush... Weird!



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24 Jun 2017, 8:23 am

They are too loud, and I can't find words strong enough to say how much I despise them when they go past.

I can't afford housing on a quieter street, so I'm stuck living on a main roadway. The cars are just a white noise, the buses sound like Concorde going by, but motorcycles are so shrill and disruptive I can't even hear my TV when they go by, and that's with my windows closed.

I hate motorcycles. I also think they are incredibly dangerous for the rider. You are exposed yet doing tremendous speeds.

My last boyfriend seemed almost proud of the fact that he had twenty five accidents on his motorbike. TWENTY FIVE accidents.

I would say by the time you've had two there is something wrong with you to keep riding the damn thing.



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24 Jun 2017, 8:38 am

Quad Bikes seem to be the worst for noise. Can't believe some of those things are legal.



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24 Jun 2017, 8:56 am

Looks like I'm the odd one out. What a surprise. /sarcasm. :roll:
I love motorbikes. Love everything about them. With the noise - this is often deliberately done by people who want to make loud, look-at-me noises. Bikes can have mufflers. There are beautiful bikes out there in the world ridden by people who don't need attention that don't make a racket.
One of my job considerations actually was / sometimes is turning into a motorbike mechanic, so I can build myself a knockoff chopper. Yesss.
I like Triumph bikes best.


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24 Jun 2017, 9:22 am

I like them very much. My dad and grandpa are (non-outlaw) bikers. My dad takes me for rides on his Electra Glide.

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24 Jun 2017, 1:38 pm

Only time I liked a motorbike was when I was riding it. Otherwise, it's just more noise for me to deal with and someone else having fun that I'm not having. I feel the same way about hearing basketballs in my street. The sudden bang of the ball hitting the hoop grates on my nerves. But I don't mind it while I'm shooting hoops myself. I'm just jealous of other people's fun.


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24 Jun 2017, 6:29 pm

I prefer scooters myself, especially Vespas :)


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24 Jun 2017, 6:52 pm

C2V wrote:
With the noise - this is often deliberately done by people who want to make loud, look-at-me noises. Bikes can have mufflers. There are beautiful bikes out there in the world ridden by people who don't need attention that don't make a racket.
Those kinds of people remind me of the motorcyclist episode of South Park :arrow:


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